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**Animado**
**zoon = animal**

The last phase of the Soul, the Unreasoning-Soul, is the Principle of Animal-Life: it constitutes, in conjunction with the body, the Animal as distinct from the Man; here for reasons of emotional connotation or clearness this phase of the soul conjoined with the body has been said to produce not 'The Animal' but 'The Animate' or 'The Animate-Entity'. This conjunction is also called by Plotinus the 'Two-together', usually translated here as the Couplement. (Stephen MacKenna)

The Soul animates the material bodies through λόγος (IV.3.10.35-42) and so the perceptible bodies are the intelligible projections or illuminations of Soul onto matter. Thus, for Plotinus, Soul should not be conceived as present in the body but the body as present in the Soul; the material universe is not an embodied soul but an ensouled body (IV.3.22-23). (GSPP)